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Lufthansa cancelled 110 Munich flights on Wednesday, it said on Tuesday, due to a strike of its pilots.

The strike at Munich, Lufthansa's biggest airport after Frankfurt, will run from 10 AM CET to 6 PM CET on Wednesday, September 10.

According to the Lufthansa website, the flights between Sofia and Munich are not affected. 

Nine firms have made non-binding bids for Cyprus Airways with Ireland's Ryanair and Greece's Aegean Airlines among those still interested in buying the loss-making national carrier, a report said Thursday.

Potential buyers of Cyprus Airways have until Wednesday to submit nonbinding offers for the loss-making national carrier, with Ryanair and Aegean Airlines in the running.

Ireland’s budget carrier Ryanair said last week that it was ready to submit a firm offer for Cyprus Airways, before the government extended last Friday’s deadline for nonbinding offers to Wednesday.

An F-16 fighter aircraft belonging to the Turkish Air Force crashed today on landing in the southeast of the country.

The jet, part of the 2nd Air Force Command based in the southeastern province of Diyarbakır, crashed, Deputy Gov. Ahmet Günaydın told Anadolu Agency. He said the plane's engine caught fire during landing.

Turkey’s new presidential jet, which has been likened by some observers to the United States’ Air Force One aircraft, has been painted in the colors of the Turkish flag, Doğan News Agency reported on Sept. 1.

It took three days to paint the Airbus A330-200 Prestige, which landed at Istanbul’s Sabiha Gökçen Airport in the early hours of Aug. 29.

Shares in Turkish Airlines (THY) have soared after the airline posted a 398.2 million Turkish Lira net profit in the second quarter – 177 percent up from same period last year – due to passenger growth and currency rate exchanges.

A Turkish Airlines passenger jet performed an emergency landing at the Sofia Airport on Saturday, officials say.

After the aircraft was at the airport at about 19:00 EEST (17:00 GMT), all people on board were asked to leave it and were led to a safe location, and a laptop with an unknown owner was seized.

Portuguese flag carrier TAP Air pilots are staging a 24-hour strike over work conditions, causing the cancellation of flights on Saturday.

The state-owned airline has canceled 36 of the 350 flights that were originally scheduled for Saturday, disrupting operations during the peak summer holiday period.

Turkish Airlines canceled dozens of flights on the morning of Aug. 8 following a heavy storm with torrential rains in Istanbul and its environs that had disrupted air traffic a day earlier.

The flights were canceled due to operational reasons, airline officials said, as thousands of passengers faced long waits at both Atatürk and Sabiha Gökçen airports.

Lufthansa Airlines are excited by the possibility using Istanbul’s third airport once constructed, a regional Lufthansa director in charge of Turkish business affairs has said.